The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-09
MITKIEWICZ'S BIG GAME.
A REPORT THAT THE CHINESE MIN
lister SIGNED THE CONCESSIONS.

CnlNaS OSNelOpIucAS1 " AAAAs ~
Overlook the American Record Of
Their Deliverer.
From the Eelo York Sua.
WASHINGTON, Sept 6.-At the Chimes
Legation there was a conference last night
between the Nitkiewicz- Barker syndicate,
the Chinese Minister and the mandarins
who accompanied Aiitkiewicz to this coun-
tn. This conference lasted until a very
late hour. and the result was that cable
gram was sent to China to-day, in which
the names Of the gentlemen who have sub
scrib<d for the stock of the syndicate were
given. 1t seems that the amount Of money
to be subscribed has been overstated II IS
SIS. 900 instead of $50, 0OO,90 OF this
sum $4,000. 600 have been subscribed by
the Chinese. One Of the secretaries OF the
Chimes, Legation said today that the
Chinese government would take $500
600 of the stock, and that the other
100000 have been subscribed for by mer-
chants in the Chinese empire. There were
a number OF men with more or less capital
at their disposal at the Manning House to
day wnO were anxious to get IN ON the
ground floor but they were too late. 1t Is
said that Drexel, Morgan & Co, OF Phila-
delphia have agreed TO take upwards OF
- 800 900 Of the stock which viii be sold III
the United States. and that every share Is
sEoken for. Mr. Chang Yen HoOn, the Chi
uese Minister. Is said 10 have been fully sat
isfied with the responsibility of the gentle
men who form the syndicate. and there Is
excellent authority for saying that the con
cessions were completed to-day by the ad-
dition " his signature to the papers which
were brought from China by Aitkiewicz
The amount at which the scheme is CAPT
italized will seem rather small for the enter
prises which are to be undertaken, but II Is
said BY Mr.. Bankers representative that the
sum viii be ample for the present, as the
empire of China Is not developed up TO the
point of gridironing the country as yet Be-
sides this. the cost Of labor is so low in
China that the work win be accomplished at
an expenditure far less than similar enter
prises would need in this country.
It seems that the concessions are really
one concession a bank is to be established
with a capital of S25, 900 900 and with the
power to issue circulation up to the full par
value Of the stock The charter of the bank
carries with it the right to engage IN tele-
graph and railroad construction 1t Is I'M
deFstood that the full terms of the conces-
sion will be published from Philadelphia TO-
morrow or Thursday.
While the financial record Of Mitkiewicz
in the United States may not have been
always Just whit it should be, the Chinese
mandarins, who accompany him, seem TO
have the highest regard for his ability as
flnancier. They praise his shrewdness, and
consider him as a saTt of savior. They as
sert that this enterprise will be the making
Of the empire. A gentleman of response
biiity SAYS that he saw a telegram to-day
from Wharton Barker to Mitkiewicg, in
which the former offered the latter $50, 900
for his interest in the concession.
The stories whick are being brought to
hight regarding Mitkiewicz's past are such
as must cause the alleged Count a good
deal Of personal annoyance. As the Sun
said yesterday, he married in the fall of
1874, at Amherst, Mass, Miss Caroline
Lester, an heiress, and the niece of Prof.
William S. Tyler, Of Amherst College.
Miss Testers relatives strongly objected TO
the match. and declared that the Count was
an adventurer. The Count and his wife
separated in 1880, after they had Travelled
the world over and experienced variety of
fortunes But in 1SS2 Mrs. Mitkiewicz was
again living with her husband, this time
at the Amherst House in Amherst. The
wife had consumption and died in the fall of
1885 To the credit of her husband IL may
be said that he watched at her bedside until
the last and did what be could to comfort
her After her death her relatives got pos
the Probate Court of Hampshire county,
Massachusetts,. declaring that the Count
was AN unfit person 70 care for them. The
children, or most of them. are nov with the
Rev. Rowland Ayres in Hadley, Mass. The
Count fought this decree, but to no avail
Then he disappeared from Amherst, and the
glory of mis- billiard playing remained a
cherished memory among the college
students.
The San story revived others about the
carvings on of the Count in this city.
Away back in 1853 young man named
Eugene Mitkiewicz, whose personal graces
won the heart of several New York girls,
lived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and spent
money like lord Indeed, he said he was
Count, and that his people were among
the Polish nobility. 0ae day in jest he
took diamond ring from the finger of a
lady, Miss Julia LomOlino, a relative Of the
late Nathaniel II. Wolfe, Jr., who lived
65 Madison avenue and Twenty-sixtn
street. He kept the ring a long
time, and when he was asked TO
return it he said that he had lost it. Then
he found it again and gave it back. But,
alas! the diamond in the ring which he re-
turned was a paste diamond. He was
arrested and examined before Justice
Richard Kelly in the jefferson Market
Police Court. II transpired that the Count
had sold the original diamond to Philip
Hisn. a Jeweier. whose shop was under the
Fifth Avenue Hotel Mr.. Rien gave $500
for the stone and some other articles of
jewelry worth about $3.50.
MitkiewicZ was sent to the Tombs, and on
Dec. 10, 1863, he was indicted for grand lar
ceny. But he returned the money and the
jewelry 20 MIR. Rien, and Mr.. Rien gave the
diamond back TO Miss Lomolino, and there
was 10 disposition to prosecute Mitkiewicz.
He was released ON 81 600 bail on his prom
Use 10 enter the Union army. There was
great concern in certain social circles at the
time lest trial Of Mitkiewicz should bring
into print the names Of the people who had
petted him and the women who had sought
his attentions. He went to a recruiting
station to enlist, but he did not enlist, and
that was the last that was heard OF him
until he met Miss Lester on an ocean steam
ship bound TO this country in the summer
Of 1873
There are queer stories about business
transactions of the Count in Maryland in
the early part Of 1880. He was in the coal
business in Baltimore, lived extensively,
confidentially exhibited to his creditors let
tiers written 10 him by Russian mobiles, and
finally failed. He was arrested on a charge
of false pretences preferred by Cartner &
Co, of Philadelphia, his principal creditors.
He was acquitted on his trial, his defence
being his ignorance of business rules. IL is
said that Admiral Porter lost money by the
failure.
Then the Count tried to run a summer re